GRACE KOERBER

I’m an experimenter, a maker and a realist. I design through multiple disciplines to create meaningful relationships between people, experience, object and place.

I’ve recently completed my Masters in Interior Design from Pratt Institute, where I graduated with highest honors and received the Convocation Award for Outstanding Merit. While in graduate school, I worked professionally designing interiors and furniture both independently and for firms like AvroKO, Thornton Tomasetti and Rock Paper Robot.

Although I’m primarily an interior designer, my skills and experience reach beyond. I excel at conceptual thinking, design iteration and full-scale prototyping. Before graduate school I worked professionally as an editorial and interaction designer at The Washington Post honing my graphic, editing and presentation skills.

From a very young age I was exposed to the word of architecture and construction. My dad is a contractor and I basically grew up on a job site. I was obsessed with looking at his blueprints and imaging the life and activity that would take place within those walls. I would switch from this “left brain” mode of thinking to “right brain” — playing art shop, sketching and painting, making and imagining. This is still a mentality I practice daily, as I traverse fluently from conceptual to pragmatic, and from artistic to mathematical.

When I'm not designing, I can be found climbing rocks, biking around the city and experimenting in the kitchen.

CORE Studios, Thornton Tomasetti | Jan 2015 - Present

Freelance | Sept 2012 - Present

Interior, Exhibition, Editorial Design

Facade consulting and interior design for $1M spec home in Asheville, NC; Designed and fabricated exhibit at NY NOW and Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show; Editorial design for ProPublica: Segregation Now

The Washington Post | Nov 2010 - July 2012

Digital Editorial Designer

Collaborated with the newsroom to create elegant, interactive storytelling experiences; Conceptualized, designed and coded special projects; Designed templates on a project-specific basis; Designed logos and branding for blogs and special projects

Tag Worldwide | Aug 2009 - Nov 2010

Designer and Developer

Designed in-house collateral; Led production team for Land Rover and Virgin; Developed internal flex applications with OOP design patterns; Coded AS2.0 / 3.0 rich media

TIME.com | June 2009 - Aug 2009

Graphics and Interactive Intern

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